r/covers rules, stats, and what to post

Rule summary

No subreddit-specific rules were displayed on the public rules page when Rankhog verified it on 2026-10-27.

Works well

• Post a genuine cover of a song you performed, with a short note on what kind of feedback you want
• Share a cover and stick around to reply to comments, since feedback is the stated purpose of the room
• If you build a music tool, post your own cover first and mention the tool only in the comments when it comes up naturally
• Post a cover of a well known song, because familiar material gives people an easy hook to react to
• If your cover is piano specific, cross post to the piano covers community that this community itself recommends

Avoid

• Posting anything that is not a song cover, since the moderator one-liner says posts should stay relevant to song covers
• Treating the empty rules page as permission to spam, because a community with no written rules still has moderators reading it
• Dropping a bare link with no cover attached, which gives people nothing to react to
• Copying the same promo text into many music communities at once, which is the pattern people spot fastest
• Ignoring the community's own pointer to the piano covers community when your work is piano specific